The groom

Xifeng in winter

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November 22nd 2009
It’s official, winter has now arrived. And blimey it’s parkey! Along with the winter came the snow which made the town look, well, very white! And even stranger than that is the simple fact that life just continued as normal. No schools were closed, all the buses ran, even though the roads weren’t gritted. Traffic just went slower. People just took more care on the snowy paths. If somebody ... read more

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more